After a week of massive aerial bombardment, Israel launched on Saturday, January 3 a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip that has seen violence escalate and a rising number of civilian fatalities. The IMEU presents the second in a series of collections of photographs from on the ground in Gaza.

A man looks over the ruins of buildings destroyed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip. (Hatem Omar, Maan Images)

A Palestinian boy carries a sack of supplies into a United Nations school in the Jabaliya refugee camp, which is serving as a shelter for Palestinian families who fled their homes under Israeli bombardment. (Wissam Nassar, Maan Images)

A view of Gaza's $2.5 million dollar football stadium after it was targeted in an Israeli air strike. (Hatem Omar, Maan Images)

Palestinians attempt to put out a fire caused by an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. (Wissam Nassar, Maan Images)

A Palestinian man sits beside the body of child killed by Israeli tank fire in Gaza City on Wednesday afternoon. (Mohamed Al-Zanon, Maan Images)

Palestinians remove rubble from a classroom in a Gaza City school that was hit in an Israeli air strike on Wednesday morning. (Wissam Nassar, Maan Images)

Palestinian salvage furniture and other belongings from houses that were heavily damaged in Israeli air strikes on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Hatem Omar, Maan Images)

A row of demolished high-rise buildings stands in central Gaza City, which has been under heavy bombardment by the Israeli air force since December 28. (Mohamed Al-Zanon, Maan Images)

Smoke rises over the skyline of Gaza City after an Israeli air strike on Wednesday, Jan 8, 2009. (Mohamed Al-Zanon, Maan Images)

A Palestinian man walks through a neighborhood that was almost completely destroyed in repeated Israeli air strikes in the southern border town of Rafah. (Hatem Omar, Maan Images)

Palestinians stand near the site of a building that was leveled in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. (Wissam Nassar, Maan Images)

A Palestinian child is carried by his father past the rubble of a destroyed building in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Israel is continuing its air strikes across Gaza while also intensifying its ground assualt. (Hatem Omar, Maan Images)

Palestinian children stand beside buildings destroyed in Israeli air strikes on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah Wednesday morning. (Hatem Omar, Maan Images)

A large plume of black smoke rises from a building in downtown Rafah on Saturday, after an Israeli air strike on the southern Gaza Strip city. (Hatem Omar, Maan Images)

Palestinians inspect the destroyed home of the Addaya family in the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City. The four-story house was leveled in an Israeli air strike on Wednesday morning, killing 13 members of the same family, including seven children. (Mohamed Al-Zanon, Maan Images)

Palestinian children look out the window of a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of Palestinian families from across Gaza have taken refuge in UN facilities after fleeing their homes. (Mohamed Al-Zanon, Maan Images)

A Palestinian child sits in the courtyard of a United Nations school, where his family took shelter due to the danger posed by Israeli attacks. (Hatem Omar, Maan Images)

A Palestinian man in the West Bank city of Qalqilia donates blood for the victims of Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. (Khaleel Reash, Maan Images)

Palestinian women attend a protest in Israel-occupied East Jerusalem against attacks on the Gaza Strip that have claimed the lives of over 700 Palestinians in the past 12 days. (Mimmi Nietula, Maan Images)

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